Hands-on vocal technology in York

We’re giving a How YOUR Voice WORKS course in York on Sunday November 22, and we’ve invited two special guest presenters to join us.

Professor David Howard and Ms Jude Brereton from the Electronics Department of York University will be talking about and demonstrating vocal acoustics and how they affect our singing (both inside and outside)

Professor Howard is well known as a tv presenter, acoustics expert and allround voice boffin (even more than me!). Jude Brereton is an acoustics and voice researcher, and is helping us organise the course in York. In fact, Jude will also be joining me later in 2010 as co-presenter on the Computer Voice Training course, bringing her hands-on knowledge of voice analysis programmes to the table.

The day in York is very much a hands-on, do-it-feel-it-understand-it day, with practical exercises, vocal and musical information and the latest vocal knowledge to improve your singing. We’re including a recommended vocal and physical warmup in the day, and there will be three main topic headings –
BREATH, RESONANCE and STAMINA!

True to our practical voice science nature, we will also have a number of stations available where participants can try out the electroglottograph, and watch their voices on spectrographic analysis programmes. David and Jude will be on hand to guide you through the programmes, and it promises to be a fascinating day.

The first time we ran this course, the event was sold out several days before, with a waiting list. The York venue is actually smaller than the Cambridge venue, so we are more likely to run out of spaces early!

You can find out more and book your place on the course by visiting the dedicated webpage at http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk/howyourvoiceworksYork.htm

We’ll see you there!

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Visit http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk/ for the latest downloads:

the Vocal Process eZINE (free electronic magazine)

86 things you never hear a singer say (free ebook)

Thoughts on breathing

Last year Gillyanne was interviewed by Rena Cook, the Editor-in-chief of the Voice and Speech Review.

This is the major publication of the Voice and Speech Teachers' Association in America that comes out once every two years.

Well, the VSR has just been published, and parts of Gillyanne's interview have been included. We've got a copy of it in this month's Vocal Process eZINE (edition 38), and the topic is breathing.

Rena questions Gillyanne about her take on breathing for Musical Theatre (or Musical Theater if you live in the US), and it makes for interesting reading.

You can get your copy of Vocal Process eZINE 38 free from the Vocal Process website - just go to the homepage and click on the magical appearing box. We'll send you the current copy of the eZINE and put your name on the list for future editions.

We'll also include the latest Cheer emails, a collection of music and language-based jokes and misquotes that come out every week (see the previous blog for more details)

eZINE 38 is due out this Thursday (24 September) and includes details of our courses for the next six months, a report on the sellout Cambridge How YOUR Voice WORKS day, and some phenomenal feedback from our presentation for the Wellcome Trust in London.

and of course, the interview!

The Vocal Process "opening your throat" techniques appear on the new sell-out Constriction and Release Training DVD

The brand new voice training DVD Nasality and the Soft Palate has just been released!

The Vocal Process website has 280+ pages, including a series of free articles on vocal technique and style, memorising and different musical genres.

Visit http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk/ for the latest downloads:

the Vocal Process eZINE (free electronic magazine)

86 things you never hear a singer say (free ebook)